170 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



less in depth, until near the end of the lake there was 

 none whatever near the lake level, though the high 

 slopes of the mountains were heavily blanketed. In 

 the late afternoon the trail led upward along the 

 sides of the mountains that came down sharply to 

 the lake, and at five o'clock we came to Baker's 

 cabin on the Slims River beyond the lower end of 

 the lake. Looking up the river are the snow peaks 

 at whose foot lies the Slims Glacier, near which we 

 hope to camp to-morrow night and begin our hunt 

 for goats. We will remain at Baker's cabin, how- 

 ever, for the night as the horses are too played out 

 to travel farther and the horse feed on the near-by 

 meadows is excellent. 



September 18. We left two of the horses on the 

 meadows near Baker's cabin, as they seem to have 

 been done up by the hard journey across the moun- 

 tains, and by turning them out for a few days' rest 

 and grazing upon the meadow lands we have hopes 

 that they may get into better condition. The trail 

 up the Slims River led along the glacial gravel beds 

 at the foot of the mountains on our right, while on 

 the left were the two-mile-wide flats of quicksands 

 through which course several branches of the Slims, 

 a glacial stream, rising about fifteen miles above 

 Lake Kluane in the ice fields that have torn their 

 way through the coast range mountains. 



The trail was level for most of the distance and 

 the footing generally good until we came to the last 



